Marketing tool picks: Week of June 9, 2025
Analyze your competition, create lifelike AI voiceovers, and streamline your social media.
Welcome back to Weekly Tools on The Branding Corner! This week, we're diving into a powerful SEO suite for deep competitive analysis, an impressive AI tool for generating realistic voiceovers, and a user-friendly platform to manage and schedule your social media content.
Murf.ai
AI Voice Generation
Murf.ai is an AI-powered text-to-speech platform that allows users to create incredibly realistic, human-like voiceovers for videos, podcasts, presentations, and other professional content. It offers a wide range of voices across different languages, accents, and styles, eliminating the need for expensive recording equipment or voice actors.
✅ Key Benefits:
Realistic AI Voices: Provides access to over 120 AI voices in more than 20 languages.
Customization: Allows you to adjust the pitch, tone, and speaking style to create the perfect voice for your project. You can also add pauses for impact and emphasize specific words for correct pronunciation.
All-in-One Studio: Includes a built-in video editor, allowing you to sync voiceovers to your videos and add royalty-free music from its library.
Ease of Use: Features a simple and intuitive interface that lets you generate high-quality voiceovers in minutes without technical skills.
AI Voice Changer: The Pro plan includes a feature that can convert your own recordings into a professional AI voice.
💲 Pricing:
Free Plan: Offers 10 minutes of voice generation and transcription to test the platform, but does not allow downloads.
Paid plans: Start at $19 per user/month (billed annually).
🔗 Website: https://murf.ai/
Later
Social Media Management
Later is a social media management platform primarily focused on visual scheduling. It's especially popular among brands and creators on visually driven platforms like Instagram, TikTok, and Pinterest, but it also supports Facebook, LinkedIn, and X (formerly Twitter).
✅ Key Benefits:
Visual Planner: Offers a drag-and-drop visual calendar that allows you to preview how your feed will look before you post, which is excellent for maintaining a consistent aesthetic.
Best Time to Post: Suggests optimal times to post based on your audience's activity to maximize engagement.
Link in Bio Tool: Features a "Linkin.bio" tool that turns your bio link into a clickable, shoppable landing page that mirrors your feed.
Hashtag Suggestions: Provides suggestions for relevant hashtags to increase the reach and discoverability of your posts.
Content Creation & Scheduling: Allows you to auto-publish various post types, including carousels, and manage your media library seamlessly.
💲 Pricing: Starts at around $16.67 per month.
🔗 Website: https://later.com/
Semrush
SEO/Competitive Analysis
Semrush is a comprehensive digital marketing toolkit that provides a wide array of features for SEO, content marketing, competitor research, and social media management. It's a go-to platform for marketers looking to improve their online visibility and gain deep insights into their competitors' strategies.
✅ Key Benefits:
Keyword Research: Offers powerful tools to discover keywords, analyze their difficulty, and track their performance.
Competitor Analysis: Allows you to analyze your competitors' traffic, keyword strategies, backlink profiles, and advertising campaigns.
Site Audit: Scans your website for technical SEO issues and provides actionable recommendations for improvement.
Content Marketing Platform: Provides tools to research topics, write SEO-friendly content, and audit your existing content for optimization opportunities.
Rank Tracking: Monitors your website's daily rankings for target keywords across different locations and devices.
💲 Pricing: Pro Plan: Starts at approximately $139.95 per month.
🔗 Website: https://www.semrush.com/
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